“For years, and long after the holiday’s more clearly identifiable fictions were exposed to me by the well-meaning and the vindictive, I sought to be the good I would find in this holiday.…

“If I stopped for every person who was foaming at the mouth in the state of Florida I would never get more than a quarter of a mile from my house and I…

“Success has many fathers and I was about to have the pleasure of explaining the questionable parentage of this child to its proud Papa.” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape by Cusper Lynn SARASOTA…

“One of the basic rules of the motivational speaker narrative is that the crisis you are sharing with your audience be well and truly behind you. Or, failing that, that you are sharing…

“Can an ego so damaged ever be fully revived and, if so, how long and laborious a task would it be to return it to its former glory?” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape…

“Given the number of religions that allow for one to ‘fall’ into evil ways, and attribute the evil in the world to a third-party malevolent force, you would think evil would be easier…

“I began to conclude that I might well be one of those ancillary characters that God keeps in the wings. A character with many quirks and twists who is ushered onto stage to…

“I am not saying there is no crime in the Midwest, but our cannibals at least dress for dinner.” Cusper Lynn The Occidental Ape By Cusper Lynn SARASOTA Florida—(Weekly Hubris)—9/10/12—The phone rang Sunday…

“Over the last few months, a fair number of my friends, men and women, had come over to inform me of the demise or imminent demise of their relationships. There had, of course,…

“Not far from the pyramid is a ‘cenote’ or, as we term it, a sinkhole. Tourists pay to swim in it and, not so long ago, the Mayans would cast sacrifices into ‘cenotes.’…